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market dynamics in Mexico in light of the crisis. The labor market has been characterized in recent years by low relative … Mexico implemented a variety of programs to cope with the crises. However, these measures were too limited to counteract the …
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Using household surveys for 24 countries over a 10-year period, this paper investigates why the elderly are more averse to open immigration policies than their younger peers. The analysis finds that the negative correlation between age and pro-immigration attitudes is mostly explained by a...
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In 2013, Mexico's Social Pension Program for the Elderly was expanded by changing its eligibility threshold from age 70 … to age 65. Using pooled cross-sectional data from Mexico's National Household Income and Expenditure Survey, the …-experimental methods, results show that the expansion of Mexico's Social Pension Program for the Elderly not only reduced the probability …
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The authors examine the role of migration networks in determining self-selection patterns of Mexico-U.S. migration … from Mexico, the authors then show that the probability of migration is increasing with education in communities with low … self-selection of migrants being driven by high migration costs, and with negative self-selection of migrants being driven …
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The impact of immigration on native workers is driven by two countervailing forces: the degree of substitutability between natives and immigrants, and the increased demand for native workers as immigrants reduce the cost of production and output expands. The literature so far has focused on the...
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This paper looks into institutional and other macro determinants of prevalence of informal dependent employment, as well as informal self-employment, in European countries, using European Social Survey data on work without legal contract in on 30 countries, covering years 2004-2009. Consistently...
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Using a rich data set of primary school students, this paper estimates the effects of immigrant concentration in the classroom on the academic achievement of natives. In contrast with previous contributions, it exploits rare information on age-at-migration to estimate separate spillover effects...
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Mexican wage inequality rose following Mexico's accession to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/World Trade …
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Recent research shows that employment in Mexico's offshoring maquiladora industries is twice as volatile as employment … in their U.S. industry counterparts. The analyses in this paper use data from Mexico's social security records and U … emanating from the United States were amplified when transmitted into Mexico's offshoring labor market of Northern Mexico. First …
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market dynamics in Mexico in light of the crisis. The labor market has been characterized in recent years by low relative … Mexico implemented a variety of programs to cope with the crises. However, these measures were too limited to counteract the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975707